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161) 8/10/2008

Today I learnt what the continent of Australia was like when the first people reached this land circa 40,000 years ago. Lower sea levels meant it was joined on to New Guinea and Tasmania - the land mass was quite a bit bigger than it is today. The first settlers, coming by a pioneering sea journey from South East Asia encountered bizarre megafauna like giant kangaroos and massive ox-like beasts. The sea levels only rose at the end of the last ice age.
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